Sharing full resolution photos

That is an excellent question.

I just bought another iPad Pro, and sure enough, those pics look pretty bad.

If I pinch-reduce the size of the photo to iPhone dimensions... of course, it looks fine.

But on the larger retina screen? Terrible!

Hey again!

This is very interesting, but I just checked the shared iCloud photo folder on my partner's ipad mini.

Photo Sharing was turned off, and I just turned it on.

The photos are a much better resolution!

Not perfect. But clearer.

I am going to try to turn off sharing on my new 10.5 ipad Pro and put it back. Very weird.

I also just checked my 12" MacBook and the photos are better as well.

They were all originally uploaded through my iphone 7 Plus.

I will try turning off Photo Sharing and putting it back. Maybe clearer photos will download!

Thanks for helping out with this!

One problem that still remains and is totally incomprehensible is the decrease of resolution when sharing photos via Airdrop. Why on earth has Apple decided Airdrop to work like this? It makes is unusable if you prefer good picture quality.

I have the same questions... Spoke with a 'Genius' a few weeks ago, but didn't resolve. And both my wife and I have macs and iPhones, so we're simply looking for a way to safely and easily backup the full resolution images of a selected number of photos to a shared place. I've even noticed the Shared Album scales down resolution on iPhone photos (iPhone 7 and 7 Plus) by about 30%! Ridiculous.

Be careful of what you wish for.

Remember, shared photo streams (they're not albums) are pushed to everyone's devices that subscribe. Not only that, but if the subscriber has Photos set to use mobile data (default), this will eat into a data plan.

What would be really nice is if the subscriber could long/force press on the photo and have an option to download the high resolution version to the device. This would require no additional data storage on Apple's part as it's a download from the original iCloud photo.

It would be even nicer if these were true shared albums. Where the administrator could sort, reorder and decide whether subscribers had access to the optimised, edited or unedited originals.

But, that would be a lot to ask of the world's biggest company by market capitalisation.

Edit : A macOS device could be set to automatically download the maximum resolution available. This would allow backup of shared family albums (for example).

There is no satisfactory integrated solution that I am aware of. Google Drive/Photos comes closest.

lame

How do they look on other devices?

How are they on a Mac? What devices did you have when you uploaded them?

I think all you were seeing were thumbnails.